But with the right kind of practice and help, we get better.Ĭopying and pasting prompts that someone else has put together is almost guaranteed to keep you in the Suck Zone forever. And when we start out, we all “suck” at it. We all start out as novices at some particular skill or as tool users. Check out the link or google the term or even ask ChatGPT! What’s the Alternative? Learn some basic things about the tool! I won’t spend any time on it, but it’s not good. There’s a conceptual model that’s used in Agile to describe people or teams who use a tool but don’t understand how it works: it’s called the “ Cargo Cult” mentality. Maybe this will work for you - it’s certainly quick. I suspect that if you’re predisposed to copy+pasta canned prompts, then you might also be inclined to use the output uncritically. It’s challenging enough to learn how to make the tool work correctly and understand/validate the output. If you don’t understand it, don’t use it. At least one tries to define a problem statement and provides some prompts to help solve those problems. Many of these resources are loosely categorised lists of prompts. I see a growing stream of products available in which someone has developed a canned list of prompts that can be copied and pasted (“copy+pasta”) into the ChatGPT. Then ensure you understand how they work and either adapt or ditch them. Use them as training material to get you started. So, to our first topic - lazy Prompt Engineering Don’t Copy+Pasta Pre-written Prompts!Īt least, not for long. Feel free to check them out here: AI Language Model Prompts Summary After wasting an hour looking at various claimed workarounds, I put these into Google Sheets. I developed - in partnership with ChatGPT - two tables of prompt types but bugger me if I find out that the Medium editor doesn’t support tables entered directly. In the first yarn, I diarised my early exposure to Prompt Engineering and looked at a few books. Or make the most of any AI capability that sports a general-purpose Natural Language interface. This is a second yarn about Prompt Engineering - a truly important skill if you’re going to make the most of ChatGPT. I’ll compare this to the list of prompt types that ChatGPT says it supports. I’ll then summarise some prompt types from one of the books I reviewed in the last post. I’ll explain why it will probably keep you in the “Suck Zone” of ChatGPT mediocrity (at best). It might look attractive but it is really bad for you. In this yarn, we’ll first cover the downside and short-term thinking of using canned prompts.
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